VPN Jobs in Essex

Virtual Private Network (VPN)
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex requiring VPN skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited VPN over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 53 63
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 +39
Permanent jobs citing VPN 16 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 2.15% 0.92% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 11.94% 8.45% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 16 6 2
10th Percentile - £25,250 £32,275
25th Percentile £25,750 £25,500 £36,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £29,250 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -32.37% -0.57%
75th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £49,563
90th Percentile - £33,000 £52,825
East of England median annual salary £42,750 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +14.00% -11.76% -10.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Essex

VPN falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 134 71 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 18.01% 10.87% 27.20%
Number of salaries quoted 60 45 48
10th Percentile £25,750 £25,350 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,875 £26,250 £26,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% -10.92%
75th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £50,700
90th Percentile - £65,500 £73,750
East of England median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £41,750
% change year-on-year -5.56% +7.78% -12.11%

VPN
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Job postings citing VPN as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Essex.

Job vacancy trend for VPN in Essex

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Salary Trend in Essex

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VPN in Essex.

Salary trend for VPN in Essex

VPN
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing VPN in Essex over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Salary histogram for VPN in Essex

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Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VPN within the Essex region over the 6 months to 19 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Saffron Walden +7 5 £26,500 -17.19%
Grays - 5 £35,000 -
Colchester - 1 £42,500 -
VPN
East of England

VPN
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (93.75%) Azure
1 15 (93.75%) Entra ID
1 15 (93.75%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (31.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) Firewall
2 10 (62.50%) DHCP
2 10 (62.50%) DNS
3 5 (31.25%) LAN
3 5 (31.25%) VLAN
3 5 (31.25%) WAN
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security
4 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
General
1 15 (93.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) 2nd Line Support
1 5 (31.25%) Help Desk Technician
1 5 (31.25%) IT Technician
1 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Technical Engineer
1 5 (31.25%) Technical Support
1 5 (31.25%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (68.75%) Windows Server
3 5 (31.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Proactive Maintenance
2 10 (62.50%) Customer Service
2 10 (62.50%) ITIL
2 10 (62.50%) Service Delivery
3 5 (31.25%) Customer-Centricity
3 5 (31.25%) ITSM
3 5 (31.25%) Mobile Device Management
3 5 (31.25%) Proactive Monitoring
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.25%) Business Continuity
4 1 (6.25%) Data Security
4 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.25%) High Availability
4 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
4 1 (6.25%) Project Management
4 1 (6.25%) Server Patching
4 1 (6.25%) Service Desk Management
4 1 (6.25%) Supplier Management
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (31.25%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (93.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Palo Alto
2 5 (31.25%) WatchGuard